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(No Model.)

D. J. KELLEY.

BUTTON STAY.-

No. 277,574. Patented May 15,1883.

tion of the button-stay.

-shaped piece of pliable or soft leather-such vided with suitable openings or holes, E, and

' UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

L. KELLEY, OF

SAME PLACE.

B UTTO N -STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,574, dated May 15, 1883.

\ Application filed March15, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID J. KELLEY, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Button Stays, described and claimed in the following specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a. cheap, simple, convenient, and durable stay for buttons secured to the garment by sewing through the eyes or holes formed in the button and through the garment fabric and through the stay placed upon the inside of the fabric opposite the button to be secured thereto; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts composing the button-stay, as hereinafter more fully described, and set forth in the claims.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a button-stay constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 represents a similar view of the metallic portion preparatory to being secured to the leather portion. Fig. 3 represents a central section through the stay, fabric, and button. Fig. 4 represents an eleva A represents a triangular or other suitableas kid, dog-skin--0r any other deemed best adapted for the purpose may be employed.

13 represents a sheet-metal stay-piece, proone or more points, 0, which are forced through the leather portion A and clinched or turned inwardly, as shown in Fig. 3.

1) represents the fabric of a garment and F thereto by means of a needle and thread, as usual, the needle being passed back and forth through the button, fabric, and stay, passing 4o over the central bars connecting the said holes E of the metallic stay-piece B, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings.

It will be understood that I contemplate forming the leather portion of the stay of two 5 thicknesses and stitched together, as shown; and, ifdesired, the metal stay-piece B maybe placed between such leather stay-pieces A and then the said leather portions sewed or stitched together, so as to confine the metal 50 plate stay-piece in position between them, and thereby dispense with the fastening-points formed upon said metal stay-pieces; or, if desired, the confining-points of the stay-piece B may be formed or struck up centrally there- 55 from; or a single point may be employed to secure the metal stay-piece B to the leather.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A button-stay consisting of the leather 6o portion A and sheet-metal portion B, having holes or openings E, said parts being secured together, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The button-stay consisting of the doubleleather portions A, and sheet-metal portions B, 65,

having openings E, and provided with fastening-points O, substantially as described, as and for the purposes set forth.

DAVID J. KELLEY.

Witnesses: SYLVENUs WALKER, GHAs. S. Goonme. 

